The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-09-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

duels in one day.
IN the Mexican church choir no woman
Il allowed 70 sing.
TnnnE arc ]. 400, ,OO0, 900 cigarettes smoked
IN this country annually.
THEY are raising peaches ten inches IN
circumference at Bentonyille, Ark.
Tgs hop crop. OF the Mohawk Valley, N.
", is said never TO be iiper In quality.
AL tho Vanderbilt roads win do away
with the deadly car stove this winter.
THn Pacific Railway Commission win
sit In New York from September 20 70 90,
tober 1.
AnEmcAx wind-mills arc helping Egypt's
grain growers TO compete with Western
farmers.
A LITTLE child near Charlotte, Mich,
foil into n milk can head first aud was
drowned.
CouxTrnFrfs two-doliar silver certIfi.
Gates are giving considerable trouble IN
New Jersey.
N Milan, they have no sdcwalISA; but
tho entire street is paved smoothly from
house 10 house
Tnn people Of this country spend ssa,.
10000 year Tor silks. Less than half Of
Il is woven here.
VA0UR rumors arc IN the social breeze
about coming marriage Of 4 Duke to m
"Amcrican girLp
THr great Tower OF Babel which IS to
distinguish tho French Exhibition OF 1859
IL gradually rising
MAnK TWAIN, the richest humorisl In the
world, Is an lnveierate smoker and an I'M
firing billiard player.
EnFtoYra OF the Pennsylvania railroad
arc 10 organize independent assemblies ei
tho knights OF Labor.
II IL said that Flood and Mackay lost
$4,000 In the recent attempted wheat
corner ii Rau Francisco
0HsEnaL BLACK, the Pension Commls-
aioner, draws the lnrgest pension enjoyed
BY any soldier-Se5 week
An O'Nell fNcb.) girl fell out Of a second.
story window 70 tho ground and landed
unlnjured on her rubber hustle.
Il Il aald OF Russell Sage that he can
command ess,0oo,0O In cash 10 half an
hour auy timc during business hours.
TnnnE Is stIll another railroad danger
that must 30 along with the car atOve and
Tho wooden bridge the grade crossing,
An Rnsenada tcal.l paper speaks Of ma
hogany ns 50 plentiful In that section that
itforms the cheapest kind OF fuel for do
mestio use.
J. x HHKRMAN, OF capo Charles, Va, has
raised $1,000 worth Of kalc from flfty
ncres or t,f,0 per acre. His net profit IL
tiaQD, or se5o per acre
Tnn public debt has boon reduced AZ the
average rate OF si2, sp6, ,075 each year. si7t,-
is5 each day. and sieo47 for every minute
Of tho last TWENTY-FIVE years.
AT Seymour, Can, the other day, man
was found dead In the woods with child
playing bosido tho dead body, but too
young 10 convey any information
wHKx a horse with the cognomcn Of
Laggard wins $4,000 purse, tho eternal
unftness Of things on this mundane
sphere receives another striking illustra-
tlon.
ABoiD, bad young man has been writing
love letters 10 the daughter Of Jay Gould,
and her brother explains 70 n reporter
that the writer has never seen the young
lady
MiLLioxATRB MAcKAY, Of California,
has received tho cross OF tho Legion OF
Honor from the French Government for
making Havro the terminus OF his Atlantic
cable
Mns Rooms Is tho cattle Queen OF Tox-
"a, said 70 be worth u ,0OO,OOo Her hus-
band Is preacher, and Mrs. Rogers
looks after the bualness end OF the estab
lIshmcnL
PREsIDnNr CLrvKLkSD's invitation 20
Pittsburgh is TO be- engraved on u steel
plate, which Is 70 DO rolled until II is only
three ethousandths OF an inch in thickness
and can be rolled together In the form OF
q SCROLL
WHARroE BAKER, OF Philadelphia, IL at
the head OF tho American syndicate which
has just secured such extensive conces-
nions Ia China for banking, building rail-
roads, telographs and telephones, dcvel-
opIng gmipcs, etc.
The death Of Prof Baird before com
plotting his sixty-hfth year shows that men
Of science do not always Understand tho
science Of life A man OF his powerful
physique and great abilities should have
lived at least eighty years.
Nor 70 be outdonc by yam Phon Lee, the
Chinaman, 10 Kichi Takomini, Japanese
nobloman, has just married Miss Carrie
Hitch, a beautiful Creole belle Of New Or
leans. There seems TO be no limit TO the
enterprise Of American girls.
A PnoTooRArH, said 10 be one OF the
largest in the world, has been talkcn OF tho
United States Treasury building at Wash
ington. II measures seven feet by four
and Is 10 be presented TO ex-secretary OF
che Treasury, Daniel Il. Manning.
THE real estate craze in Southern Cali
fornia has even demoralized tho doctors.
In writing a prescription recently ono OF
them added this direction; 'Take one
third down and the remainder In one and
. two years, secured by mortgage.
SEVEN thousand people assembled at City
Point Boston, the other day, TO witness
serias Of swimming matches between
dogs Tho contestants swan from n barge
anchored about half a mile of shore 70
point within short distance OF land.
DR.. srENcrR r. BAIRD, tho deccased
secretary Of tho Smithsonian Institute, Is
the author Of more than l,200 books, PAM
phlets and publications. OF various kinds.
ELDER EVANS, OF the shaker community
AZ New Lebanon, Columbia County, N, Y.
has just celebrated his elghty-fifth birth
day. For fifty-fivc years he hns abstained
from eating hshand flesh.
TIM Mormons have story that some
Eastern phrenologst has offered $1,000 for
John Vaylor's head, and the tomb OF thu
dead president win be jcalously guarded
In consequence.
LAIEsnuHo (Mich.) man has tame
cricket which sings whenever called upon
70 do 30. tits as irolicsome as circus
clown, and Is almost tickled 70 death to
receive amy notice from its owner. II
sings in araspine, sawflling tenor. and In
minor key, but gets there just the same.
rho little insect furnishes no end OF
Amnaoment By It's evident Intelligence and